Is calculated custom fields still on the roadmap? Will this include the ability to do simple calculations (e.g. Divide 1 field by another and display result in custom field) similar to what ZenKit offers?

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20 hours ago

Martin Meixger

@Zeb Will ticket "Bulk Actions with Custom Fields" be considered for v2?

I'd like to see a better way to manage customer fields. I have to hunt for a field if I delete it. I'd like to see a global view of fields which shows me where the field is used, it's type, etc. This will allow me to limit and control fields

Would it be possible to add the ability to select multiple items from a dropdown with the new version of Custom Fields?

Sample use case: My podcast episodes usually have 2 sponsors. Currently, I'm just using tags to mark the sponsors, but I'd like to be able to set them using Custom Fields, like I'm currently doing with a Notion database.

A project (or list, depending on how it is used) often requires members of the team to have access to data such as the client's phone number, email addresses, passwords, urls, etc.

These pieces of information often need to be referred to to throughout a project, so having convenient access to them without leaving the platform. However, not everyone needs to see everything. So being able to assign which member can see what info.

I'd love to be able to change custom field values from the Board view, particularly drop-down type fields.

I created a new field for the Type of task (New feature, Improvement, Bug, ToDo, etc), and now I'm updating all my existing tasks with that value. It would be MUCH faster to be able to quickly edit those from the Board view.

I noticed in the custom field youtube tutorial, when you added a single number, it showed up in the task list very narrow. I have done the same and the field is very wide, wasting space. How do I control that?

@Darryl Brooks: @Zeb my custom field columns are also very wide in list view, I tried making the field names shorter, and making the field values shorter, but nothing helps. How do we control column width?

Autocomplete for text data in custom fields based on previously added data.

Use case: I store people's first and last names in custom fields as an alternative to "assignee" field for people who haven't access to ClickUp to track promises and obligations for personal tasks, not for collaboration. It's like "give a book back to my friend John Doe". In order to be able to filter all tasks related to John Doe. It's possible to do it with tags that have autocomplete and suggestions, but custom field looks more appropriate for this. But it's difficult to type in full names each time.

I am creating a new custom field - one for currency. The options I can see for the currency itself are USD, EUR and GBP.. I was hoping for an AUD/Australian Dollars option... it might already be there, but the UI doesn't let me scroll

January 8, 2019

January 10, 2019

Jeri Taylor

When creating a custom field, can you include if the field is required. If it were required it would restrict a task from being closed if the required field isn't complete? For example, the check box feature or drop down feature. If a check box is required, "Approved" then the ticket can be closed but if it is not checked off then it must remain open until that required box is checked.

Hi! Loving ClickUp so far. I'm based in Shanghai, China, and bill most of my clients in Chinese RMB. I noticed there are only 3 options for currency (USD, EUR, and one other). Would it be possible to add more currencies?

From customer: Needs calculating fields in List view: Say I have client A, B and C with expected fees respectively (that could change when the content of the discussion changes). I need to get the sums of such expectations. Clickup seems have that function on Reporting. I would like to have that in Project view.

@Faisal Malas: They have that option in reporting, however everything is highly unorganized. You should be able to view the tasks children (sub tasks) and be able to tell which task and it's sub tasks are which. if you set a price for example to a tasks sub tasks and than do that for another tasks subtasks, when you pull it up in reporting, there is no organization showing each sub task that belongs to a certain task, it's all just scattered everywhere. i've tried to do filtering, etc, and nothing. highly unorganized in this regard. @Zeb

And I like to import data from a xml-value to a custom field. Mostly I use external tools for my writing progress and in this way I like to add the written words to my tasks. But I don't like to update them every time manually.

I'll add my vote for this. Currently we use manual / excel-based checklists as forms to collect data (which can then be used to demonstrate compliance with regulatory or voluntary / industry-based standards). Examples include file links, drop-down boxes.

For custom fields to be useful for our needs they need to be available as form fields for tasks and checklist items.

Custom field: Two way REFERENCE other tasks (not the same as task dependencies)

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Yuri Corvalan

it is extremely helpful to be able to link two list items (tasks) to each other without making one the dependency of the other. This is an increasingly popular feature in content, contact and task management in which a link from one item is visible in the other, and vice versa. Its called Two Way Reference.

For example, this is useful to relate two contacts with each other (I know John from Eve, or Ann is the mother of Jimmy, or this tasks relates to another) and the link can be made visible in the custom task column.

The functionality is as follows: When custom field Reference is added, there can be a autocomplete search box that allows to find any task (list item) anywhere, and when selecting one, it will make a link visible in both the current and the target item.

A more advanced way of implementing this is the creation of relationships, which means instead of just two way referende links, the relationship is a separate list item which connects two other list items and can hold the information of the relation such as a title, details etc.

As project manager and webdesigner the Reference as well as the Relation features are the most powerful and popular tools I implement for content and contact management

@Zeb: Since custom fields v2 seems very big, and is not even on the roadmap yet, would you consider in the short term developing just a calculated field?

Been watching this thread for a while, because tools for planning which projects should come next is so important. And while the new custom fields are a step toward ranking potential projects, what we need is the ability to calculate a score based on multiple custom field values. So, while many of the Airtable features that @Londya England outlined are super important, the one critical next step for making a lot of processes is calculated/rollup field.

@Bruce Cannon: It's not on our roadmap but it will be sooner rather than later. This is extremely critical to ClickUp 2.0 which is planned for early next year. Custom Fields v2 will be done with 2.0. We aren't adding as many things to our roadmap (because the community holds us too tightly when we do), but I can assure you this is planned for the first month or second month of next year.

@Zeb: I understand, and I want to give you semi-public props for being so transparent, I'm sure it causes problems. But for what it's worth, it's also one of the the main reasons I'm so committed to sticking with Clickup as it develops. Thanks for the update.

And thanks for working on calc fields. And thanks for the various posts in which you or the team has supported the idea of working toward the goal of making Clickup a user-programmable platform like Notion, Coda, Airtable. Right now it's still too rigid for me, but I'm optimistic because of the unique intensity of development on your platform.

calculate values based on formulas that can include other field values from the same "task" or "project" etc

December 5, 2018

December 7, 2018

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Sophia Kaminski

From support ticket: I have about 20 existing projects, and I have a custom field that I have created that I would like to include in all those existing projects. Do I have to go into each one individually to add the custom field, or is there a way to select them all, and add the custom field all at once?

It would be awesome to add the ability to bulk add a custom field to all Projects

[Client Submitted via Intercom] I have a suggestion relating to Custom Fields. Having just signed up I started playing with custom fields and I can already see ways to use this keep things simple. However, I have an observation relating to the Dropdown custom field - it would be great if it was possible to change the order of the drop down items once they have been created - especially useful if you need to add a new one. There is no way to 'insert' an new option.

I also noticed you added a tooltip on hover when dropdown copy is too long...that's' great but I'm going to be cheeky and ask that that tooltip hover functionality is added to the active dropdown choices that are too long. Thanks!

Calculations: Using percent (or at least fractions), additional opearations (product) and more complex formulas (including additional numbers that aren't in any of the fields) would be great. Ideally at some point you could even use input from non-custom fields. (Multiply time est. with daily rate to get budget)

A field that can be applied to a user based on day rate or hourly rate, with an option to hide the field, ie. only visible by admin's choice. This could then be used to calculate against other custom fields and report on it.

An associated criteria would enable manual separation of the logged time on tasks, if not applied by the time tracking, thus the total logged time makes up the split per assignee.

Thinking further. Adding the ability to create a custom field at the Project, or Space or List level would allow for a Estimated Budget, an Actual TD and a remaining spend, per person, per space/project/list.

October 27, 2018

October 28, 2018

Jorgen

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Required feilds before ability to save

Shannon Draegen

Make it so a task cannot be saved until specific fields such as due date and owner have been filled in.

October 26, 2018

October 28, 2018

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Sophia Kaminski

From support ticket:

I know that calculated fields are coming for numbers and currency fields. However, we also need a custom field of predefined values that can be summed up to use as a way of calculating the task weight / difficulty.

If a custom field has been set to show on a card front but no value has been entered (null) then that custom field should be hidden. For custom fields that have been set to show only those that have a selected value should be show. This will avoid situations were valuable space is wasted - see example screenshot.

October 24, 2018

October 25, 2018

Jorgen

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Drag and Drop for Dropdown Custom Fields

George

If you want to adjust the order of your dropdown list in ClickUp you have to delete entries to move them.

It would be nice to just drag and drop the options to reorder, so the data is not compromised.

October 23, 2018

October 25, 2018

Jorgen

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Set default for custom fields

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Robert Anderson

I would like to be able to set the default choice for a 'dropdown' custom field. Currently when activated each item is set to a dash "-". But would like to be able to set a default so that at creation, each field is set to a particular choice by default.

This could be extended to all custom field by allowing a default value.

October 19, 2018

October 19, 2018

Jorgen

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Custom Field - User Names

Yael Neubauer

Current custom field types are fantastic. Adding 'user field' as a custom field option would be helpful, similar how assignees are listed

October 8, 2018

October 9, 2018

Jorgen

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Option for non-clickable phone numbers

Mike Masin

Clickable phone numbers are a speedbump if we don't VOIP call and click a phone #, e.g. to copy it. Please consider making it an optional feature we can disable in our profile.

On the "at list level vs project level" discussion I think that creating a pool of custom fields at or above the project level, but be able to assign them discretely to each list (or at the task level, or choose not to assign any) would be the ultimate.

Can we add a custom field that allows selection of multiple from a list? Similar to the way labels work, but these will limited to the project scope only instead of the whole space.

In our scenario, our project is divided into 5 constituent components. I have set up a custom field to assign the selected task to a particular component, but sometimes it might be relevant to more than one component so in these cases I'd like to choose multiple options from the list.

October 1, 2018

October 1, 2018

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Sophia Kaminski

From support ticket: I'd like to add "Time" to the Date Field for Custom Fields. Also wondering if the date field will have display options such as dd-mmm-yy in future?

@Yuri Corvalan: +1. I would also love the option to display a custom rich text field in its entirety, as opposed to it being truncated automatically at a certain point. Sometimes I want to display lengthier chunks of text in the main view, but this is lacking in almost every productivity app I've tried.

Another Custom Fields related issue: the large colored 'New Task" button ot the top right corner autopopulates the current location and list just fine, but does not allow to fill in the custom fields of that list. This is already becoming a problem for specific items that rely more heavily on custom fields than on the standard fields. So the solution is that the form updates the custom fields section dynamically according to the location/list that is selected (like a dynamic field dependency)

Add feature whenever you filter Custom fields, you have the option filter as much just like Tags and just choose Match Any or Match All

September 22, 2018

September 22, 2018

Londya England

Here are my suggestions:

- ability to rearrange custom field columns

- ability to add custom fields to the list level

- ability to view lists and their custom fields together in a spreadsheet-like format (just like how we can view tasks and their custom fields together) if the above request is fulfilled

- ability to add time to "date" custom field

- ability to see date/time from "date" custom field in calendar

- ability to link lists/tasks within other lists/tasks using custom fields & ability to do "rollup" calculations (I've attached an example of how airtable can link different tables within other tables. In the first picture you can see from the arrows how each table is linked within another table, and comparing the second picture with the first, you can see how "sample"client's total spend is added up in the "client campaigns" tab using the rollup feature.

1) Optionally make custom fields required for any particular task. Do this maybe by allowing a setting of a dependency of sorts where status cannot be changed to "X" unless field(s) is filled. ("X" being one of the statuses in the project, obviously)

2) If a custom field's name is too long to display when the field section is expanded, show full name on hover (or some other way to read it).

See also the fields available in Podio for their list templates (they call their lists templates 'apps', and these apps the users can sumbit to other Podio users in a public database of apps. Would be nice to allow that for Clickup users too). I am intending to move from Podio to Clickup because the Clickup interface if much more user friendly.

The custom field that I use most is the Relationship field. Another interesting one that will become increasingly important is Location (geo location with maps)

@Yuri Corvalan: Hi, same here. We are considering moving away from Podio since ClickUp has way more features that will help us. I still have to figure out how to "map" clients with projects, meetings, opportunities, etc., but working on it. I'm hoping there's a search option soon that also goes through the custom fields, that would be nice. Regards!

With the new custom fields feature it would be helpful to have the possibility to modify the custom fields in bulk mode (similar to edit tag).

Thanks

September 17, 2018

September 18, 2018

Jorgen

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Custom Field: Website Links

Jenipur Wapaño

Would it be possible that whenever anyone clicks the link, it will not automatically enter into the Edit mode in order for the other links to be clickable as well. It's a bit of a hassle to click the arrow up and down at the right side in order to change it back to the clickable mode. Please see video: http://nimb.ws/W9jLJt

September 17, 2018

September 18, 2018

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Yuri Corvalan

Cross-reference field 'Related' to link together other items (tasks) in other lists or projects without dependency behavior, but with a title field to explain the reference. This will allow for a link in the list view that lists all 'All tasks having a reference with this task'. In the task itself under everything there can be a listing of such related tasks. A more advance implementation would be to create custom relation types.

The custom field would be a search autocomplete field that allows to attach one or more existing items accessible for the team.

In the list view custom item column, the first related item would be visible as clickable link which redirect to that item. It could become a dropdown when multiple items were added as reference.

[From support] Ability to change center aligned text to left of right for text-custom-fields in list view

September 16, 2018

September 17, 2018

Zeb

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Any currency in Custom Fields

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Douglas Bento

Don't get why custom fields currencies are confined to three options only. It could be a editable field in which you type the symbol and name of it.

September 16, 2018

September 17, 2018

Zeb

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Custom Field Type: File Upload

Doug Smith

While ClickUp allows for file uploads, I’d like the custom field type option for file uploads. I have tasks that require the same types of files and this would allow me to see which tasks have these fields populated and which do not.

Another use of this feature would be that if an image is uploaded a thumbnail of the image will be visible in the custom field column. This is useful for contact lists, user attendency lists, product lists, recepies etc.